Given
p. p. & a. from Give, v.
1. (Math. & Logic)
Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.
2. Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given. Shak.
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3. Stated; fixed; as, in a given time. Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for given; he lists it under addicted.
Where he writes about it:
A man may be accustomed to labor, attached to his profession, devoted to his religion, given to study or to gluttony (in the bad sense, given over, or given up, is a stronger and more hopeless expression, as is abandoned). — from addicted
To give is primarily to transfer to another's possession or ownership without compensation; in its secondary sense in popular use, it is to put into another's possession by any means and on any terms whatever; a buyer may say "Give me the goods, and I will give you the money;" we speak of giving answers, information, etc., and often of giving what is not agreeable to the recipient, as blows, medicine, reproof; but when there is nothing in the context to indicate the contrary, give is always understood in its primary sense; as, this book was given me. — from give